[MAIPC] Cattle grazing Japanese Stilt grass was - Re: MAIPC Digest, Vol 120, Issue 8
Robert Ferrell
googmrfferrell at gmail.com
Sun Oct 3 06:08:04 PDT 2021
I have a herd of cattle that eagerly graze Japanese Stilt grass. I strip /
rotationally graze them and intentionally put them in Stilt grass to help
manage it. This summer I learned they really like Mimosa trees. I cut
some large ones in the pasture and they would strip every leaf and bloom
from the branches and even stripped all the bark from the main trunks. The
Mimosas were blooming but had no seed pods. I also watched them browse low
hanging Ailanthus tree branches. They won't touch Sychamore tree
sapplings. These cattle are in good body condition and had pasture grasses
available to them.
Robert Ferrell
Amherst County, VA
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> To: "'Heidi Allen'" <rundvm at gmail.com>, "'Marc Imlay'"
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> Subject: Re: [MAIPC] Japanese Stilt grass
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> As you mention, the problem with deer, like cattle, may be the change in
> microbes at the beginning and the end.
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> Has anyone looked at the nutritional value of stiltgrass? It is hard to
> believe it has any redeeming quality.
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> Interesting thought about the goats though. They are reported to eat any
> thing and have a lower browse line.
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> From: MAIPC <maipc-bounces at lists.maipc.org> On Behalf Of Heidi Allen
> Sent: Friday, October 1, 2021 2:51 PM
> To: Marc Imlay <ialm at erols.com>; frazmo <frazmo at gmail.com>
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> William Buettner Jr <wbuettner at mdot.maryland.gov>
> Subject: Re: [MAIPC] Japanese Stilt grass
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> I believe the deer is a ruminant. Based only on the knowledge of our
> domestic ruminants, I would think that deer would have the ability to eat
> and likely digest stiltgrass (or they microbes would). But, we may see
> issues related to toxins, mineral imbalances and rapid shifts in diet. So
> how about a slow change over using a Hosta lead concentrate?
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> Wasn?t University of MD trying to train goats to eat stiltgrass (and not
> other plants). Did they do OK? And, does the rumen destroy seeds?
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> Thanks
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> Heidi
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> On October 1, 2021 at 9:26:40 AM, frazmo (frazmo at gmail.com <mailto:
> frazmo at gmail.com> ) wrote:
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> My understanding is that deer don't eat grass. They are browsers, not
> grazers. So I don't think this could work. What is definite is that the
> deer help to spread stiltgrass and wavyleaf.
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> Cheers, Steve Young
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> On Fri, Oct 1, 2021, 8:32 AM Marc Imlay <ialm at erols.com <mailto:
> ialm at erols.com> > wrote:
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> That is a great thought.
> And when a deer has learned to like the stiltgrass it may remove it
> elsewhere. Marc
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> Subject: RE: [MAIPC] Japanese Stilt grass
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> Has anyone tried to spray stilt grass with an ?attractant? that may induce
> deer browsing? I?m not sure what deer like in the sense of taste but a
> spray of ?sugar? may get them to at least browse the plant which from my
> observations they appear to shy away from? Just a thought.
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> Subject: [MAIPC] Japanese Stilt grass
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> Today at Ruth B. Swann Park in Charles County Maryland, I came across
> about a quarter acre that had only dead stilt grass from last year. The
> dead stilt grass was very thick but there was no live stilt grass or any
> other green vegetation including beefsteak plant, Perilla frutescens.
> There was a lot of Perilla about 300 feet away.
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> Marc Imlay
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> From: Marc Imlay <ialm at erols.com <mailto:ialm at erols.com> >
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 7:16 AM
> To: 'Kit Britton' <kitbritton at gmail.com <mailto:kitbritton at gmail.com> >
> Subject: RE: Private: Re: Successional Change at Fraser Preserve with
> Margaret Chatham - Thu, 03/11/2021 7:30pm-9:00pm
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> If it kills the seedbank and you remove Perilla, the stilt grass would not
> come up at that location the next year (unless it came in from elsewhere).
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> From: Kit Britton <kitbritton at gmail.com <mailto:kitbritton at gmail.com> >
> Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2021 6:57 AM
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> Subject: Re: Private: Re: Successional Change at Fraser Preserve with
> Margaret Chatham - Thu, 03/11/2021 7:30pm-9:00pm
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> I don't know. I'm trying to think how to figure that out.
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> I think if I look for the first spring/early summer growth of both
> plants, there would be the clue. Is that right?
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> Killing the seedbank would mean perilla comes up mostly alone except for
> stiltgrass seed that blows in late the prior year.So maybe that would be a
> smaller "crop". So the result is the stiltgrass that year is sparse.
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> One thing is perilla is usually still carrying and presumably dropping
> seed well after the stiltgrass seems finished.
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> I will watch patches of perilla on TRI this spring/summer.
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> Kit
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> On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 8:53 AM Marc Imlay <ialm at erols.com <mailto:
> ialm at erols.com> > wrote:
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> Does the Perilla kill the seed bank or just the emerging stiltgrass? Marc
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> From: Kit Britton <kitbritton at gmail.com <mailto:kitbritton at gmail.com> >
> Sent: Sunday, March 14, 2021 9:20 PM
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> Subject: Private: Re: Successional Change at Fraser Preserve with Margaret
> Chatham - Thu, 03/11/2021 7:30pm-9:00pm
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> >From observation in woodlands environments at Theodore Roosevelt Island
> and in Donaldson Run Park it appears that Perilla may have a toxic effect
> on Japanese Stiltgrass which will not grow under the Perilla plants or is
> very sparse. Also on a larger scale at Gambrill State Park in Maryland
> this was obnserved last summer.
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> Kit Britton
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